rear arch repair with what ?? mat look here please

[Matty86]

My local bodyshop said they'd cut out the metal fairly far back

and weld in a new sheet of it, rolling it up at the arch


they reckon about £300 up to the primer stage, but then mines baaaadly rusted

[Daz.]

You do get what you pay for though - I paid £600 for my arches and they were only 'just' starting to go - some people pay that for a whole respray!! :D

The also injected and waxoiled them or whatever it is they themselves use - be interesting to see how long they last

[Lunner]

I got quoted £300 for one arch, to cut out and weld a new piece of metal in and treat a bit of rust by the door, top quality bodyshop, not renound for being cheap....got quoted £180 for the same work elsewhere

[wavy]

[northy]

as said before dave once u get the wire wheel on that it will have a few holes in it.

Is the inner wing still connected to the outer ok still ??? as they tend to go here now as the glue cracks and lets the skins pull apart

[2 live]

only on the really bad ones mate.

[Daz.]

I'd have thought you'd get away with that...

The more I see the more I appreciate how good my arches really were - it was only the very very tip of the lip that had gone on mine..

[northy]

that rust is coming from behind and bubbling through, so it will have holes in definatly and im sure the actual metal will be waffer thin and be pitted on both sides.

Dave - is that side original ? Has it ever been repaired before ?